Arbeitspapier
How to construct nationally Representative Firm Level Data from the ORBIS Global Database
Firm-level data on productivity, financial activity and firms' international linkages have become essential for research in the fields of macro, international finance and growth. This paper describes the development of a firm-level global panel dataset for public and private companies based on the administrative micro-dataset ORBIS, provided commercially by Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvD). The ORBIS database provides data on firms' financial and productive activities from balance sheets and income statements together with detailed information on firms' domestic and international ownership structure for over 130 million companies across the world. Researchers need to overcome several challenges before making the database usable for research. First, the database is not designed for large downloads that is essential for an econometric analysis. Second, there are several inherent biases in the database that affect the download process and lead to missing information. Third, the raw data may contain a number of irregularities which, if not dealt with, will result in data loss during a standard cleaning procedure. In combination, these issues cause minimal coverage of small firms, extensive missing data, and poor national representation. We give detailed instructions on the data gathering process from ORBIS in terms of downloading methodology and cleaning procedure so that a researcher can construct a database that is nationally representative with minimal missing information. We provide examples from several European countries to present the process and discuss the resulting dataset in detail.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 15-110/IV
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General
International Economics: General
Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth
- Thema
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Firm-level data
ORBIS database
productivity
firm ownership
public and private companies
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem
Sørensen, Bent
Villegas-Sanchez, Carolina
Volosovych, Vadym
Yesiltas, Sevcan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Tinbergen Institute
- (wo)
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem
- Sørensen, Bent
- Villegas-Sanchez, Carolina
- Volosovych, Vadym
- Yesiltas, Sevcan
- Tinbergen Institute
Entstanden
- 2015
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